Asia Argento's lawyer claims Jimmy Bennett sexually attacked her

Asia Argento’s attorney claims the actress was sexually attacked by her accuser Jimmy Bennett — and not the other way around.

Argento’s lawyer, Mark Jay Heller, dropped the bombshell in a new statement that cites a text message, allegedly sent by Argento, which contends, “The horny kid jumped me . . . I had sex with him it felt weird.”

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Heller’s statement goes on to say, “She then went on to relate that she became ‘frozen’ when he was on top of her and he told her that she had been his sexual fantasy since he was 12 years old. Asia chose at the time not to prosecute Bennett for sexually attacking her.”

Argento is accused of having sexual intercourse with Bennett in 2013, when he was just 17. The age of consent in California, where the alleged act took place, is 18.

The allegation against Argento, 42, was first reported last month by The New York Times, which also reported Argento had quietly reached a $380,000 settlement with Bennett. Shortly after that report emerged, Argento claimed in a statement she’d never had sex with Bennett and that her late boyfriend, celebrity chef and writer Anthony Bourdain, agreed to the private settlement out of concern over “the possible negative publicity” that Bennett might bring.

In his new statement, Heller says Argento will stop making payments toward that settlement with Bennett. He says Bennett has received $250,000 in payments so far.

“Asia will not permit any portion of the balance of the $380,000 payment to be paid to Bennett,” his statement reads.

Bennett, now 22, spoke publicly about his allegation against Argento for the first time last month.

“At the time I believed there was still a stigma to being in the situation as a male in our society,” Bennett said to The New York Times. “I didn’t think that people would understand the event that took place from the eyes of a teenage boy. I would like to move past this event in my life, and today I chose to move forward, no longer in silence.”

Argento was one of the first women who came forward last fall to accuse Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault.

Last month, actress Rose McGowan — another Weinstein accuser who had grown close with Argento — released a statement claiming her partner, model Rain Dove, had received text messages from Argento that allegedly showed her admitting to sleeping with Bennett. McGowan says Dove then provided the texts to police, and that they were somehow leaked to the media within days.

Argento returned to Twitter and feuded with Rain Dove on Wednesday morning, slamming the model as “a sick pathological liar … who made money out of me by selling selected text messages in order to portray me for something I am not.”

Argento also accused Dove of inventing a lie regarding the death of Bourdain, who killed himself in June.

Argento’s attorney could not immediately be reached for further comment Wednesday.